Xinpi thought of what the old man said about the paper shop and immediately became concerned.

Since Cai Lun improved papermaking, paper is no longer a new thing. Paper is lighter than bamboo slips and cheaper than silk. It is very popular among scholars, but not everyone knows how to make paper, and the quality of paper is also uneven. Zuo Bo, a native of Donglai, is a calligrapher. He was very dissatisfied with the paper on the market. He devoted himself to research for many years and made paper with uniform thickness and fine texture, with the name Zuo Bo paper, which suddenly became a best-selling product. Scholars often regard Zuo Bo paper as a gift.

But not many people know how Zuo Bo paper was made. Zuo Bo cherished his secrets and refused to show it to others. Now that he heard that Deng's paper workshop made new paper comparable to Zuo Bo paper, Xinpi realized the huge crisis contained in it. Along the way, he had seen the four-wheeled cart and saw the new plow. Now the people of Nanyang have built new paper in just a few months. How great is Nanyang's potential? Why can they create new things one after another?

Xinpi accelerated his pace and followed Zhao Yan out of the county temple. A county official brought a horse, and Zhao Yan turned over the horse. Xinpi was a little embarrassed. He was used to riding a car and was not used to riding a horse. He could still deal with it while walking slowly, but following Zhao Yan might make a fool of himself. Zhao Yan walked quickly, and riding a horse was naturally for convenience, so it was unlikely that he would walk slowly with him.

Seeing that Xinpi was not on the horse, Zhao Yan realized that he immediately stopped a carriage on the side of the road. The carriage was also a four-wheeled carriage, but it was pulled by horse, and the price was much faster and much more expensive, almost twice that of a ox carriage. Just by pulling it to the Deng family outside the city, Zhao Yan was charged 100 yuan.

Seeing Zhao Yan taking out a handful of money, counting one by one, preparing to pay the fare later, Xin Pi's eyes were straightened.

"Boran, you are Shinno Ling, and you have to pay for the bus?"

"This is a private car, of course I have to pay for it." Zhao Yan looked at Xin Pi and laughed. "It's okay, I have a car and horse allowance, so I don't have these two money." He squeezed his eyes. "Don't think I'm just a Qianshi County Magistrate, but my salary and allowances are not less than those of the prefect."

Xinpi disagreed. Although he had never been a prefect, he knew how much the prefect's salary was and also knew the prefect's various extra money. The prefect had a lot of prefect, but if it was just a salary, it was not considered abundance. Zhao Yan was a county magistrate, so he had no ceremonial guards when traveling, and there was not even one entourage, and only two subordinates, which was really shabby.

"You can't even afford to support a tutor, and you still say you have money?"

"It's not that I can't afford it, but that there are so many things. Everyone has their own affairs. When you leave the city later, just take a few soldiers at the gate."

"Aren't you afraid that someone will do you badly?"

"Are you?" Zhao Yan laughed loudly and slapped his thigh hard. "Zhin Georgie, do you believe it or not? As long as I shout on the road, someone wants to assassinate the county magistrate, any new savage will rush out to kill you."

"I can't tell you are so loved by others. You are such a good parent. No wonder the new savages want to choose you as the leader of the order."

"Oh, people, that's it. If you are a little better to them, they want to be heartless." Zhao Yan sighed and looked out the car window with clear eyes and bright eyes. After a while, he turned his head. "George, I've actually been waiting for you for a long time."

"wait for me?"

"Yes, General Sun has a good impression of you. I heard Guo Fengxiao say that I have a good relationship with you, so I wrote a letter to ask me to persuade you. Otherwise, I wouldn't take you to the paper shop. Ten paper shops in Nanyang are kept confidential and ordinary people can't get in at all."

Xinpi smiled. "I didn't agree to General Sun. You should take me there now. Isn't it a bit Menglang?"

"This is also what the general ordered."

"General Sun is really sincere."

"General Sun said he doesn't want to be enemies with you, he wants to be friends with you. Since he is a friend, he must be honest."

"If I refuse to be friends, I must be enemies?"

Zhao Yan looked at Xinpi for a moment and laughed silently. "George, you'd better not think so. There are two examples in front of you, none of which you want to follow in the footsteps."

Xin Pi was silent for a moment and knew who Zhao Yan was talking about. In fact, there were more than two people, who were enemies of Sun Ce and had no good ending in the end, so there was no need to bother looking for him. He turned his head, avoided Zhao Yan's gaze, leaned against the wall of the car, and looked through the car window, looking at the bustling crowd outside, his mind suddenly shook, just like a four-wheeled carriage.

Zhao Yan and I said together that Sun Ce could value Zhao Yan so much, and he wrote a letter to ask Zhao Yan to persuade me, if I voted for him, how could he not use me?

After a while, Xin Pi came back to his senses and couldn't help laughing. Sun Ce was sincere, but unfortunately his door was too low, and even if he tried his best, he was not a match for Yuan Shao. It was a coincidence that he could make such a big move in Nanyang. The powerful men in Nanyang were eliminated a lot because of betrayal of Yuan Shu. Sun Ce defeated Xu Rong and won the hearts of the people in Nanyang, which was the only way to vigorously promote a series of new policies. In other places, such as Runan, would he dare to do this?

Sun Ce obviously knew this. Nanyang was making a big splash, but Runan was calm. Naturally, he knew that his ability was limited, so he focused on managing Nanyang. Nanyang had a good location. If Sun Ce had stopped, Yuan Shao might not be able to conquer it smoothly in the future even if he went south.

Time is endless.

However, Gongsun Zan was entrenched in Youzhou and had a feud with Yuan Shao. The war was imminent. Yuan Shao could not go south at this moment. Because of this reason, he was unwilling to break up with Chang'an now.

Sun Ce obviously saw this. He was also trying to grab time, and he was determined to grab Jingzhou. The three passes had fallen into his hands. The next step was to seize Nanjun, Jiangxia, Liu Xun and Huang Yi were two pigs, and he could not be Sun Ce's opponent at all. These two counties fell into Sun Ce's hands, and it would be difficult for Yuan Shao to cross the river. The war could only be carried out between Yu and Yan. Even if it was broken, Sun Ce would not feel distressed.

By the way, where is Sun Ce now? Why didn’t he capture Jiang Xia directly?

"Where is General Sun? Have you returned to Pingyu?"

"No, he's going to Jiujiang."

"Jiu…jiang?"

Xin Pi's heart suddenly picked up. Zhou Ang, the prefect of Jiujiang, was Zhou Yu's elder brother, and the three brothers were all supporters of Yuan Shao. Sun Ce had just won the three passes and turned around and went to Jiujiang. What did he want to do? Left Nanyang and right Jiujiang, and fight against Yuan Shao in Yuzhou?

Xin Pi felt heavy shoulders. Yuan Shao sent him to Yuzhou not only to escort Yuan Yao to guard the tomb for Yuan Shu. His task was to interfere with Sun Ce's layout and buy time for Yuan Shao, but he could do very limitedly, and Sun Ce's development speed was too fast. The situation was urgent and could not be delayed anymore. The situation in Nanyang must be reported to Yuan Shao and asked him to mention Sun Ce to the same level of danger as Gongsun Zan for consideration. Even if the main force of Jizhou cannot go south, the troops from Yanzhou should be mobilized to invade Sun Ce.
Chapter completed!